Category: Politics

Donald Trump really wants to make American great again — but first, he’s trying to make us afraid.

During his acceptance speech Thursday night, the Republican nominee for president (not “presumptive” anymore — as in, we’re actually doing this) cast himself as the savior of a nation beset by crime, undeterred foreign threats and spineless leadership. And then he achieved it not using the trademark unsubtlety and braggadocio that carried him to the convention, but alternatively using language blunted just adequate to make his frightening vision acceptable to voters.

Read more at: Opinion: A scarier, more insidious version of Donald Trump (n.d.) http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-opinion-newsletter-donald-trump-republican-nominee-20160723-snap-htmlstory.html

Politicians running for president are graded by Politfact therefore the order runs in how you would expect it to when you are annoyed when Donald Trump is speaking. Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, has reached the base of the list with a sad 9% of true or mostly true statements. Just 9% of this things Donald Trump says are typically pertaining to the truth.

Trump lies a great deal that in 2015, Politifact awarded him the Lie of the season for numerous statements he made, because the team couldn’t select the most egregious lie. Away from 77 statements checked, 76 of these were found to become mostly false to false to pants on fire lies.

A team of historians whose life’s work has consisted of studying the men, women and events that shaped America have banded together to speak out against Donald Trump.

Historians including David McCullough, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow and Vicki Lynn Ruiz have all posted short videos explaining why Trump’s campaign is disturbing to a Facebook page called “Historians on Donald Trump.”

McCullough contacted Burns to arrange your time and effort after he saw Burns’ commencement speech at Stanford this current year, that was highly critical of Trump. The page was made Wednesday morning.

Commentary: She is a smart lady, she is just saying what we all having saying about Trump and his third grade level speeches. Her knowledge is beyond Trumps knowledge by light years. She could not have gotten where she is on senseless rhetoric. Trump mentions “I” several times. Everything seems to be about him when answering questions. There is no substance and people are falling his promises that he cannot keep, but he is suing one of his former workers. No where in media, was there silence for the shooter in Dallas. It is scary people would rather believe a lie and the truth. You check it out… see for yourself.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday she regrets remarks she made earlier this week to CNN as well as other news outlets criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“On reflection, my recent remarks for a press inquiries were ill-advised but I regret making them,” Ginsburg said in a statement. “Judges should avoid commenting throughout the candidate for public office. Someday I am going to more circumspect.”
Red more at :Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘I regret making’ Donald Trump remarks (n.d.)http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-i-regret-making-donald-trump-remarks/index.html

Clear fractures over policing and law enforcement continued to roil the nation Monday in the wake of a bloody, horrific week, as new details come about in Dallas about the attacker who killed five police officers as well as those who made it the onslaught.

Police here said that they were still sifting through large amounts of evidence related to the shooting rampage, an effort that requires watching hundreds of several hours of videos and doing quite a few interviews. Even while they worked through that, the Dallas police key vowed to carry on pushing for reforms and said this individual felt that police officials were asked to handle too much around the world.

It had been so near to the message that Republicans say they want from Donald Trump: a tweet describing Hillary Clinton as “crooked” and the “most corrupt candidate ever,” on the morning that the likely Democratic presidential nominee met aided by the FBI.

Nevertheless the image that Trump decided to illustrate his point, which portrayed a red Star of David shape slapped onto a bed of $100 bills, had origins into the online white-supremacist movement. For a minimum of the fifth time, Trump’s Twitter account had shared a meme from the racist “alt-right” and offered no the reason why.

Resource: Trump draws rebuke for his tweet with an image of Clinton and a Star of David (n.d.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-draws-rebuke-for-his-tweet-with-an-image-of-clinton-and-a-star-of-david/2016/07/03/d321162c-4136-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html